Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-09-29
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nothing but a war that would breal
the power Of the confederated IndiaT
tribes could make the settlement o
Ohio possibility. The sagaeity anc
prudence of President Washington
were striklngly illustrated in his policy
on this perplexing subject. He or
ganized an army of five thousand men
appointed Gen. Wayne-"Mad Anthony
Wayne'-to the command of a specia
/ force and, early in 1902, drafted detailed
instructions for giving it special dis
| cipline to fit 1t for Indian warfare. But
during that and the following year he
exhausted every means to secure the
peace of the West by treaties, wishing
to avoid unwarraptable hostillties.
But agents of England and Spain
were intriguing to recover the great
empire they had lost by the treaty oi
1888. A British force had already been
sent to the rapids ofthe Maumee, where
they built a fort and inspired the
Indians with the hope that the British
would join them in fighting the forces
of the United States. All efforts hav.
ing failed to arrive at peaceful settle.
ment of the difficulties, on any otheI
basis than the abandonment by the
Government of all the territory north
of the Ohio river, Gen. Wayne pro-
ceeded with that remarkable vigor
which was characteristic of the man,
and on the Goth of August, 1894, defeat
ed the Indians and their allies on the
banks of the Maumee and completely
broke the power of the confederation.
On the 3rd Of August, 1795, Gen. Wayne
concluded, at Greenville, Darke county,
0, a treaty with the Indian confeder-
acy, which opened the State to settle
ment, reserving for the Indians the
same territory west of the Cuyahoga.
as described in the treaty of 1855.
GEN. ANTHONY WAYNE.
Anthony Wayne was born in Penn
sylvania, in 1745. He was profession
al surveyor, like George Washington
and George Rogers Clarke, whom we
have already mentioned at full length;
next he became provincial legislator,
and finally soldier in 1775. He was
very active during the whole of the
Revolutionary war. His most daring
exploit was the re-capture of Stony
Point on the Hudson, July 16, 1779.-
Says LOSING: $50 secretly was the
whole movement conducted, that the
British garrison were unsuspicious of
danger. At midnight, the little army
of patriots crossed the morass in, the
rear, and attacked the fortB with ball
and bayonet, at two separate points, in
the face of heavy cannonade from the
aroused garrison. At two o'clock in
the morning, Wayne. though SO badly
wounded in the head by q glancing
blow of q bullet, as to fall senseless,
wrote to Washington: 'sThe fort and
garrison, with Col. johnson, are ours.
Our officers and men behaved like men
who are determined to be free.n This
was considered to be one of the most
brilliant events of the war. Wayne
was highly complimented. The Brit
ish lost in killed and wounded and
prisoners, about six hundred men; the
fifteen killed and eighty
three wounded. 4 DR.. Rush wrote, say
ing: "Our streets rang for many days
with nothing but the name of Gener-
al Wayne. You are remembered con-
stantly next to our good and great
Washington, over our claret and Ma
deira. You have established the
national character of our country; you
have taught our enemies that bravery,
humanity, and magnanimity are the
national virtues of the Americans"
Congress gave him vote of thanks
He was appointed to succeed Gen. st.
Clair, in command of the Western
troops, and marched into the Indian
country in the autumn of 1898. He
spent the winter at Greenville, near
where st. Clair was defeated, and built
Ft. Recovery. The following summer
he pushed forward to the Maumee and
built Ft. Defiance, and on the st.
Mary's he built Ft. Adams, as an inter-
mediate post.
The British then occupied a fort at
the Maumee rapids near by. On the
10th of August, 1894, Wayne went
down the Maumee with three thousand
men, and not far from the present
Maumee city-Waynesville-he fought
and defeated the Indians on the Goth
of August. He laid waste their coun-
try and aftera successful campaign of
about ninety days, he went into winter
quarters near Greenville. In the fol-
lowing August the chiefs and warriors
of the western tribes, in all about
eleven hundred. met there the Com
missioners of the United States and |
treaty Of peace, ceding a |
large tract of land in the present States |
of Indiana and Michigan. After that |
the United States had very little trou- |
BILE with the western Indians, until |
Just before the breaking out of the war
of 1925. The British held possession |
of Detroit and nearly all of Michigan
until 1895, however. Wayne died at |
Erie on his way home, near the close of
1896.
A RECENT WRITER DESCRIBES HIS
MONUMENT AT ERIE, Pennsylvania. |
"This monument over the grave of
Wayne, has been recently |
erected, and is unique in design and To-
Gated on an elevated plateau overlook
ing the harbor. The monument con-
sists of block-house built in imitation
ofan original one that in times gone
by occupied the same site.
1.-The present blnck-house of squared |
oak logs well notched together at the
corners. The first story is sixteen feet
square and sixteen feet high, with q
door on one side. The upper story is
octagonal in shape, and made to pro-
lect several feet over the lower, thus
making it difficult of access except
through the interior of the lower room.
A fight of winding steps permits of
ascent to the upper octagonal room |
from the ground floor of the block
house. The roof Id also octagonal and |
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